Sinthanai-Stat

Personal biostatistics / epidemiology portfolio website for Sinthanai Selvan Palanisamy, Project Research Scientist‑I (Biostatistics), ICMR – National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai.

Live structure:

• index.html — profile / about / experience / education / publications / skills / contact
• resources.html — presentation slides, a sample size & power calculator, and a basic statistics calculator
• assets/css/style.css — all styling
• assets/js/main.js — navigation & tab behaviour
• assets/js/calculators.js — the statistics engine (pure client‑side JavaScript, no external libraries)
• assets/images/ — profile photos
• assets/cv/Sinthanai_Selvan_CV.pdf — downloadable CV
• assets/ppts/ — drop presentation files here (see "Adding a presentation" below)

Publishing with GitHub Pages

1. Push this folder's contents to the root of the Sinthanai-Stat repository on GitHub (github.com/Sinthanai-Stat/Sinthanai-Stat).

2. In the repo, go to Settings → Pages.

3. Under Build and deployment → Source, choose Deploy from a branch.

4. Set Branch to main (or master) and folder to / (root), then Save.

5. After a minute, your site will be live at:

   https://sinthanai-stat.github.io/Sinthanai-Stat/
   

   (GitHub shows the exact URL at the top of the Pages settings page once it's live.)

If you'd rather have the site at the shorter https://sinthanai-stat.github.io/ (no /Sinthanai-Stat/ in the URL), rename this repository to Sinthanai-Stat.github.io in Settings → General → Repository name — everything else stays the same, since all links in this site are relative.

Quick push from your computer

cd Sinthanai-Stat
git init
git add .
git commit -m "Launch biostatistics portfolio site"
git branch -M main
git remote add origin https://github.com/Sinthanai-Stat/Sinthanai-Stat.git
git push -u origin main

Then enable Pages as described above.

Adding a presentation (PPT)

1. Copy your .pptx (or exported .pdf) file into assets/ppts/.

2. Open resources.html, find the <div class="ppt-grid" id="pptGrid"> section, and add a card like:

   <div class="ppt-card">
     <div class="file-icon">PPT</div>
     <h3>Sample Size &amp; Power Analysis Workshop</h3>
     <p>Slides from the NIMHANS Bengaluru workshop, 2024.</p>
     <a href="assets/ppts/sample-size-workshop.pptx" class="btn btn-outline" download>Download</a>
   </div>

3. If you no longer want the "Slides coming soon" placeholder, delete the <div class="empty-state" id="pptEmptyState">…</div> block right below the grid.

Updating your CV

Replace assets/cv/Sinthanai_Selvan_CV.pdf with a new export using the exact same filename — every link on the site already points to it, so nothing else needs to change.

Local preview

No build step is required — it's plain HTML/CSS/JS. To preview locally:

cd Sinthanai-Stat
python3 -m http.server 8000

Then open http://localhost:8000 in your browser.

Notes on content

• The phone number and referee names from the CV were intentionally left off the public site for privacy; only email, Google Scholar, and ORCID are shown. Add them back in index.html if you'd like.
• The sample size / power calculator uses standard z‑approximation formulas — good for planning and teaching, but confirm with exact methods or statistical software (R, STATA, pwr package, etc.) before finalising a study protocol.
• The statistics calculator's t‑tests and chi‑square test run entirely in the browser (no data is sent anywhere).